Posted in Analytics, Ecommerce, Retail, Stores on Oct 18th, 2007
Christine Churchill posted the article Offline Conversion Tracking: The Missing Metric over at Search Engine Land and talks about methods for tracking offline conversion. Definitely work a look.
Barnes & Noble refreshed their website recently and some of the additions are useful but overall falls short. When you reach the refreshed site, a 1/3 of the page is dedicated to B&N picks presented in a scrolling flash window. Unfortunately, you are only given a pause button instead of back/forward/skip a page controls. This [...]
Finally a hint of common sense in the USPTO! The US Patent office just recently rejected the claims of Amazon.com One Click patent after Peter Calveley raised the money from donations to request a re-examination of the patent. Calveley pointed out multiple patents previously filed to Amazon’s request that may have invalidated their claims.
Amazon has the [...]
I’ve been sick this past week so I haven’t been up to posting much, but I did find these two articles that are definitely worth sharing.
Werner Vogel’s(CTO of Amazon.com) attached an architecture paper on his blog All Things Distributed. The paper covers the architecture in place for Amazon’s distributed storage system.
If storage system architecture for extremely scalable ecommerce [...]
Update: Recently we released our Top 500 Ecommerce sites which can be looked at from different angles like pagerank, traffic, backlinks, public companies, etc.
NRF Stores magazine releases a chart with the top 50 ecommerce sites voted on by consumers.
Top 50 Article Top 50 Chart
Yesterday I attended the JeffNJoe MSDN .NET Tiki Hut Roadshow in Palm Beach. Jeff and Joe presented Expression Web, Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1, and a mash-up using Virtual Earth. By far, the most interesting topic was Silverlight, Microsoft’s new Rich Internet Application(RIA) cross browser, cross platform plug-in. The 1.0 version available now, definitely looks and feels [...]
After the much talked about change of Borders using Amazon.com to host their site, Borders releases their new beta site. At first glance the site has a nice design.
The first thing I noticed was the “Magic Book Shelf” and immediately got my hopes up for something really cool and useful. Unfortunately, it’s a Flash object consisting [...]
I came across this site XinuReturns.com today that quickly shows you all sorts of SEO stats on your website in a dashboard type format. From there you can drill into each individual stat so you can try to optimize your site, backlinks, indexed pages, page rankings, keywords and validations.
Posted in Ecommerce, Retail, Social Networking, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0 on Sep 19th, 2007
The first content oriented keynote at shop.org was given by Kelly Mooney, President and Chief Experience Officer of Resource Interactive, a leading interactive marketing services firm. Kelly’s talk centered around the idea of OPEN brands which stands for O - On demand, P - Personal, E - Engaging, N - Networked. She pointed out that [...]
Posted in Analytics, Ecommerce, Retail, Social Networking, Stores, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0 on Sep 18th, 2007
shop.org in underway and it’s grown 10x in the last 6 years. 6 Years ago, shop.org had about 200 attendees and for 2007 the unofficial attendee number is about 2000 consisting of about 500 retail organizations with a 70% larger exhibit hall than last year. The show is focusing on 4 main areas that were requested by its [...]
